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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Was in OEF II, can confirm.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fuck man, they get you with their jingoistic rhetoric about protecting our freedom? Or was it the free college and then you got pulled into the war? I was too young, and thankfully by the time I was old enough the narrative had begun to shift and I could see it for what it really was.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was 17 and needed to get away from abusive parents.

Recruiters prey on the disadvantaged.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

That they most certainly do. I’m glad you made it back alive, hopefully mostly intact mentally and physically.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

Operation Iraqi Liberation! Aka OIL

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Murder Drones when they get hungry